Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.
Direction
Burton's thesis statement — every frame screams future Beetlejuice.
Acting
Vincent Price's velvet voice drips with delicious melodrama.
Writing
Rhyming couplets that'd make Poe jealous and your mother worried.
Director
Tim Burton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burton made this while miserably working as a Disney animator on The Fox and the Hound — he called it 'creative vomit' to survive corporate animation hell.
This short directly led to Burton getting Frankenweenie greenlit, which got him fired from Disney, which led to Pee-wee's Big Adventure. The butterfly effect of goth cinema.
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